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From: Kevin Eldridge
Date: 21 Oct 2012
Time: 09:07:13 -0500
Remote Name: 67.165.187.114
I was quite enamored by the Stocker Probe at one time. However, the article in JFD ( Stuttering and level of linguistic demand: The Journal of Fluency Disorders, Volume 15, Issue 2, April 1990, Pages 93-106, Richard Martin, Susan Felsenfeld Parlour, Samuel Haroldson, suggests (if I recall correctly) that the differences noted are likely related to increased verbal output in the higher level prompts rather than the linguistic level itself. I am unable to access any more than the abstract, but it states: "When performance on test items was partially equated for amount of speech, and when stuttering was scored in the more conventional terms of percent words stuttered, stuttering frequency did not differ significantly among the various levels of linguistic demand. This result was applicable for both stuttering and non stuttering.children, and for both younger and older children." Something to think about.